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Protests and crises turned up the heat on the Chancellors barbecue for the President

IT SHOULD have been a sunny day at the seaside for President Bush, as he hugged a gift of Baltic herring and then headed off for his first wild boar-and-Coke barbecue on an eastern German farm.

Instead, the many international crises brewing before the G8 summit starts in St Petersburg tomorrow looked as if they were about to create the perfect storm.

The Israeli blockade of Lebanon, Iran’s nuclear intransigence and North Korea’s missile testing ensured that the phone of Condoleezza Rice, the Secretary of State, was red hot during a day of supposed relaxation. “I’m sure looking forward to